Flexible card holder



Nov. 30 1926.

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ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 30, 1926.

warren stares ADOLPH I). WILLSON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

FLEXIBLE CARD HOLDER.

Application filed October 27, 1925. Serial No. 65,062.

This invention relates to improvements in card holders, and particularly of a type to be used in connection with the holding of automobile license certificate and operators license card.

The main object of the invention is to produce a card holder of the type described which can be readily fastened or released from position on some conspicuous part of the motor vehicle, particularly on the steering post where it is readily discernable without interfering with the operation of the vehicle or any part thereof.

In the use of a motor vehicle it is required that both the certificate of registration and the operators license be conspicuously displayed, and furthermore these certificates are changed at least once a year and to date I know of no card holder in which the cards can be readily and easily interchanged or wherein the holder can be quickly and easily taken from position and replaced for the purpose of interchanging the cards, and it is the aim therefore of my invention to provide a card holder which will have these advantages.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purpose for which it is designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

Fig. 1 shows the dotted outline of a steering post with my improved card holder shown mounted thereon in solid lines.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the card holder. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the same. Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference onthe drawings, my improved card holder comprises primarily an outer border or frame 1 which is made of some durable but flexible material such as leather, imitation leather or the like, the space between the border being covered with some transparent but likewise flexible material 2 such as celluloid or the like suitably fastened into the border.

Triangular retaining corner members 3 are positioned in each corner of the frame 1 back of the cover 2 to form sockets be tween the members 2 and 3 into which the corners of the card may be projected to retain them in the holder. Retaining clips 4 are secured to the sides of the frame 1 at points between the ends thereof and a cover strip 5 projects across from the sides of the frame opposite these clips 4.

In practice two cards may be put into the holder, one being the certificate of registration as at 6, and the other being the operators license, as at 7. These are held under the corners 3 and the clips 4 and the dividing line between them is covered by the strip 5. The sides of the frame 1 are provided with a plurality of eyelets 8 and lacings 9 are secured to the frame so that the same may be laced through the eyelets 8 to fasten the holder to the steering post 10 of the vehicle or at any other desired point, the flexibility of materials of which the frame 1 and the cover 2 are made allowing same to be shaped to fit around the element to which the card holder may be fastened.

If fastened on the steering post 10 the reading matter can be readily seen from the left hand or drivers side. of the vehicle, which would be the logical place for a trafiic officer or other person wishing to see same to stand while making the inspection.

While I have provided the holder flexible so that it may be laced around different ob jects, nevertheless it can be fastened by screws or the like in flat position at some point on the vehicle if so desired.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objectsof the invention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s:

7 A card holder-for the purpose noted including a flexible rectangular member hav- 5 ing an open transparent space between its side edges, retaining clips across the corners of the open space on the under side of the holder, a cover strip across the open transparent space at a point intermediate the ends of the holder, and retaining clips on the under side of the holder back of such cover strip. r

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

ADOLPH D. WILLSON. 

